nsgarch
Responses from nsgarch
| HDCD Decoding ? The biggest problem with HDCD enabled DAC's and CDP's is that the the PM chips are not that great sonically (sorry Poetcatullus) so much so that Mark Levinson (the brand) got special permission from PM to manufacture their own HDCD chips to incorp... | |
| Van den Hul spindle oils for TT bearing Milimetr, I'm glad you mentioned the matter of non-metallic bearing materials. You must not use the VDH Spindle Oil with assemblies containing plastic, Delrin, Nylon or Teflon parts, due to excessive wear AND the fact that the hard zirconium oxide... | |
| Van den Hul spindle oils for TT bearing The only oil I've used is the Spindle Oil (on my Goldmund Studietto TT) and it made a huge difference (quieter background, better bass dynamics, and almost no audible mechanical noise.) Being a DD TT there wasn't too much mechanical noise to begin... | |
| RCA to balanced John,NsgarCH, the discussion here was line out transformersQuite right John; I missed that ;~) | |
| Purist Audio, Venustas or Aqueous Hi J Mc -As I tried to express in my previous, the Musaeus model, although made of the same "stuff" as Venustas and Dominus, just doesn't provide the same qualities (even in lesser amounts) as its two more expensive brothers. Many people feel (and... | |
| RCA to balanced John-tracy is correct in that coupling caps have consequences -- don't all circuit parts? Ihe issue is which devices' "consequences" you think di the least harm, right?For neutrality, I'd personally take today's high quality caps over step-up tran... | |
| regarding shielding Pl_guy, you would connect the red to the RCA center pin (as red is customarily +) and the white to the ring (body) of the WBT RCAconnector. The shield braiding can be separated at one end, and about half the wires trimmed back to where the outer j... | |
| regarding shielding Hi Mt10425:I checked and found that the Music Meter cables are constructed of TWO wires in a "twisted pair" configuration. This works well for rejecting RFI (with no shield) but not so much for 60Hz hum (although hum is more easily controlled by c... | |
| regarding shielding mt10425, could you provide a little more detail:What is the construction (or brand) of your (single-ended?) interconnects? Just because cables are unshielded doesn't necessarily mean they will be noisy if they don't pass near power cords (or equip... | |
| RCA to balanced Sell the BAT preamp AND the single-ended phonostage and buy an Atmasphere MP-3 fully balanced preamp with a fully balanced ALL-TUBE phonostage built right in! You will need an XLR-terminated phono cable (from the tonearm to the MP-3's phono input)... | |
| shipping boxes for heavy electronics When using a pallet, ask the shipper (or do it yourself) to attach cardboard pyramids to the top of the box(es). this is a very common technique (trick) used to prevent carriers from stacking other stuff on top of your shipment ;~) | |
| regarding shielding You are referring to a "floating shield" (one end 'floats' -- is not connected.) This is exactly to PREVENT any curent flow, which would result in hum and RFI being mixed with the audio signal (and thus winding up in your speakers!)Having the shie... | |
| Static electricity: Unique to Vinyl Systems? I agree with Al (airborne rather than system borne.) In addition to the sources of RFI he mentions, I'd like to add two more: (1.) the power cables on ANY digital equipment, and (2.)the RFI created by static discharge such as people walking across... | |
| Why does the copy sound better than the original I do see where you're going with that.Which is the part that's really disturbing . . . . Anyway, it's apples to oranges | |
| Why does the copy sound better than the original Al, I didn't take the time to read the threads you mentioned, but (my understanding is) this was settled a long time ago; and the overwhelming conclusion (at that time anyway ;~) had to do with the fact that a burned CD has (physically) real 'pits... |